All - Grass of Chinese Brake
Herba Pteridis Multifidae
Feng Wei Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; slightly bitter; slightly warm

Part(s) used

Whole herb or rhizome

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

1. to clear heat and toxic material. 2. to cool the blood and stop bleeding.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Dysentery, diarrhea, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, jaundice, swelling toxin of clove sore, throat impediment with nipple moth, scrofula, parotitis, mastitis, ardent fever and convulsion, snake or insect bites, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, bleeding due to external injury.